Legal Opinion
Tochterman v. Baltimore County
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 6, 2005No. 1125, September Term, 2004PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHARLES E. MOYLAN, JR., Judge
(retired, specially assigned).
If there is one overarching principle of administrative law, it is that the courts should never lose sight of the separation of powers doctrine when, periodically, they are asked to intervene in the operations of a separate and equal branch of government. An employee of the Baltimore County government, unhappy at his non-consensual lateral transfer, had available to him an established grievance procedure, with three levels of review, within the executive branch of government. Only when he failed to prevail at any of those levels did…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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